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posed to be the equivalent of the coal in the Sunfish valley, near Woods- 

 field. In the interval of one hundred and ninety-three feet between Nos. 

 5 and 7 in the section, which did not reveal to us its strata, every thing 

 being buried with soil, there should be found other seams of coal, which 

 at other points have been found of some value. 



MALAGA TOWNSHIP. 



This township lies west of Seneca, and borders Somerton, of Belmont 

 county, on the north. It is, for the most part, on the high, broad ridge, 

 which, beginning in Summit township on the south, extends north 

 through Somerton, "Warren, etc., townships, in Belmont county, and con- 

 stitutes the divide between the direct tributaries of the Ohio on the east 

 and the various tributaries of Wills Creek on the west. Much of the 

 high land is smooth, and well adapted to fruit culture. Traces of thin 

 seams of coal were found in going from Miltonsburg to Calais, which are 

 mentioned in the report for Seneca township. Traces of similar seams 

 were seen on the road from Miltonsburg to the deep valley of Sunnsh 

 Creek, in Center township, which at Ford's Mill is about three hundred 

 feet below Miltonsburg. They were nowhere opened, and probably are 

 too thin to be worked, except in a small way for neighborhood use, by the 

 rude method of stripping. They are all high in the geological series, 

 and nowhere in the Second Geological District are they found to be of 

 much practical value. Some limestone strata were seen, which aid much 

 in fertilizing the soil. 



SUMMIT TOWNSHIP. 



This township is well named, for it is upon a very high ridge, from 

 which the water flows into Wills Creek on the north-west and west, into 

 Sunfish Creek on the east, and into various tributaries of Little Mus- 

 kingum on the south. A hill on the land of George Frock, a half mile 

 south-west of the village of Lewisville, is one of the highest points in 

 the county. It is one hundred and thirty feet above the upper seam of 

 coal, and about three hundred and forty to three hundred and sixty 

 above the lower coal found on the South Fork of Wills Creek. A distant 

 knob, in the direction south, 25° east, is a little higher. The Lewisville 

 hill is on the Marietta road, and, as usual in south-eastern Ohio, the 

 road runs over the highest point! The following section was taken in 

 passing from the Lewisville hill down to the coal seam on the South Fork 

 of Wills Creek : ^ -^ 



1. Top of knob. 



2. Not exposed 



3. Blossom of coal. 



4. Limestone 



